Amiri Baraka Quotes

You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

Amiri Baraka

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 7, 1934 - January 9, 2014

Topics

ChangeStrugglePeopleLongYouGet

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

Jim DeMint

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My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.

Jessica Pare

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When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

John Cameron

KnowledgeMedicalOpportunitiesSee

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

Andrea Martin

ChallengeDoneNeverTennesseeHad

I am very rewarded and challenged in front of the camera.

Anna Faris

I AmCameraFrontChallengedVery

It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

MeBuildingDoingFenceEasyStar

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

Jeff Bewkes

MyselfFinanceEngineeringWallSaid

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

Steve Burns

LifeMusicMy LifeHobbyActing

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.

Miroslav Volf

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Building our homes as fortresses of righteousness for protection from the world takes constant labor and diligence.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

WorldBuildingDiligenceLaborTakes

That's how you win - pitching and defense.

Derek Jeter

WinYouPitchingDefenseHow

'Fair' is, like, this incredibly overused term in negotiations: 'I just want what's fair.' 'What's the fair market price?'

Christopher Voss

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